Star Mobile Home Park, Lawn Lane, Coven, South Staffordshire, WV9 5AY

Planning appeal 3220179 at Star Mobile Home Park, Lawn Lane, Coven, South Staffordshire, WV9 5AY (South Staffordshire District Council) was dismissed on 14 July 2021 by Inspector Savage M, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the Council's decision to refuse to grant a LDC was well-founded.

storage of building and other materials and horticultural waste in connection with the day to day use of the adjoining land known as The Star Mobile Home Park. The use is not a separate storage use, but is ancillary to the use of the adjoining caravan park

Authority: South Staffordshire District Council
Appeal type: ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure: Inquiry
Development: other · Major general industry/storage/warehousing
Inspector: Savage M
Postcode: WV9 5AY

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

whether the Council's decision to refuse to grant a LDC was well-founded

What decided it

The appellant failed to demonstrate, on the balance of probabilities, that the storage use had continued without significant interruption throughout the required 10-year period, particularly due to a marked reduction in activity between 2013 and 2016.

What the Inspector cited

Judgments: Harrods v SSETR [2002] JPL 1258; Thurrock BC v SSETR & Holding [2002] EWCA Civ 226; Swale BC v FSS & Lee [2005] EWCA Civ 1568; [2006] JPL 886; Islington LBC v SSHCLG & Maxwell Estates [2019] EWHC 2691 (Admin); Panton & Farmer V. Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport & the regions and Vale of White Horse District Council [1999] 78 P&CR 186

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